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NewScripts Play Reading Series



Newscripts reading photo
Bill Brochtrup and Fionnula Flanagan in the NewSCRipts reading of Bill Cain's How to Write a New Book for the Bible: A Play for an Older Actress in 2010.

NewSCRipts is a play reading series that has provided a forum for talented writers for 25 years. NewSCRipts gives patrons the opportunity to be a part of SCR's play development program at three Monday evening readings (and series subscribers receive one Pacific Playwrights Festival reading as a bonus).

Past NewSCRipts readings include Donald Margulies' Collected Stories, Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain and Amy Freed's Freedomland, all of which went on to New York productions and were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize—as well as Wit, which won the Pulitzer for author Margaret Edson.

Tickets to individual readings are only $12 and are available online or by calling SCR Ticket Services at (714) 708-5555.

2011-12 NewSCRipts dates:

  • WARRIOR CLASS
    by Kenneth Lin
    directed by Oanh Nguyen
    October 10, 2011, 7:30 pm

  • POINT LAST SEEN
    by Scott Organ
    directed by Casey Stangl
    December 5, 2011, 7:30 pm

  • March 19, 2012, 7:30 pm

See the list of plays included in SCR's NewSCRipts series since its inception in 1985.

NewSCRipts Honorary Producer:
Elaine J. Weinberg